Abbas Sakarwala
Technical Leader, Engineering at Cisco Meraki
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbbas Sakarwala is a technical leader with 10+ years designing and delivering system applications, networking, telemetry, analytics, and controller software for large distributed systems. Currently driving cloud-enabled switching at Cisco Meraki, he brings deep domain expertise across networking platforms from his long tenure at Juniper Networks and earlier systems work in India. He combines hands-on engineering with architecture and team leadership, translating complex network requirements into scalable, operational controllers and telemetry pipelines. Based in Sunnyvale, CA, Abbas pairs an MS in Computer Science from UT Dallas with practical experience shipping production-grade networking software at scale. Notably, his career spans both research and product environments, giving him a rare blend of academic rigor and production discipline. He is known for solving thorny distributed-systems problems that improve observability and control in carrier-class and cloud-managed networks.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (17)
pong10
simulator9
robocup9
cpp8
grpc8
python8
php8
simulation8
replay8
csharp8
objective-c7
java7
ruby7
telemetry7
monitoring6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
abbassakar/jtimon
Jan 2020 - Jan 2025
Junos Telemetry Interface client
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 5 years
golangtelemetrymonitoringjunos
nkumar43212/jvsim
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
jVision Simulator
Contributions:219 commits, 9 PRs, 243 pushes in 3 months
replaypongsimulationsimulatorjava
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